4. Digging out and replanting twenty shrubs (pooh, tough...)5. Pruning about a dozen trees (the cut leaves smelled pleasant...)6. Shopping for a clay cooker for steamboat-ing in the garden (I am ready to eat now...)

7. Making a second, tough broom from the bamboo sticks (100% handmade...)8. Planting a pot of hibiscus and a bunch of gazanias at the slopes (no sweat...)9. Planting some cabbage and broccoli seedlings (a breeze...)

10. Setting up a place to make compost from dried leaves (earthworms, where are you?)11. Digging a pond (long way from completion...) *see picture here*

I surprised myself doing the bike brakes for the first time...And, quite thrilled to see the 'Cockerel Bell' being nicely fixed at the gate pillar...

But most of all, I feel particularly pleased with what I am doing with the pond...Come next year, there will be cruising comet goldfishes...Quaint water lilies and pink lotus flowers blooming...

I can't wait...

Was working even after nightfall on Sunday...*The sun sets before 6:00 pm these days*

Tired, I laid my body on a large rock...Facing upwards, gazing at the beautiful sky...